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My Parents Have Been Incredibly Supportive From Perhaps The First Real Independent Decision I Made To Become A Vegetarian At 11, Which Was Certainly Not Consistent With Their Diet At The Time.

I'm A Big Health-food Freak And A Vegetarian Devotee.

I Am Excited To Work With Nbc News To Continue To Highlight Stories Of Organizations And Individuals Who Make Their Communities And Our World Healthier, More Just And More Humane.

What Inspires Me Most Are People Who Imagine And Implement Solutions To Challenges In Their Own Lives, In Their Communities, In Our Country And Around The World.

As A Mom, What I Found So Disturbing Were The Things That Were Being Said On A National Stage - I Mean, Literally On The Stage And Off The Stage, Around The Convention About Women, About Minorities, About Muslims, About Immigrants.